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Keloo
Keloo

Reputation: 1408

how to fix memory leak in setTimeout closure?

Can someone please explain how to fix this memory leak in nodejs:

var foo = function (data, cb) {
    cb(data);
};

setInterval(function() {
    foo('asdf', function(data) {
        console.log(data);
    });
}, 500);

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2047

Answers (1)

zarkone
zarkone

Reputation: 1355

Actually I agree with @vkurchatkin, there is no memory leak. I tried to run this code with small variations and my results: node processes had no memory incrementation. But my terminal emulator rxvt does. You should check yours.

Usefull topic: How to prevent memory leaks in node.js?

Upvotes: 3

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